When the words “stove coffee maker” are said, only one name comes to mind: Moka Pot. Created almost 100 years ago, the Moka Pot as we know it was popularized by Bialetti, and throughout that time its form has remained largely unchanged. (In fact, the shape became so iconic that when Renato Bialetti died, his the cremated remains were placed in a Moka Pot-inspired urn.)
Therefore, a reasonable argument could be made that the stove coffee maker should get a modern look. Or maybe we should all leave in peace. One look will decide which side of the schism you choose Saddlebag. The company’s award-winning coffee machine with stove Cultivation facilities it’s definitely a top-of-the-line coffee maker, and it only costs $650.
Cultivation Objects is the Brooklyn-based studio of Nathaniel Wojtalik, whose work “typically focuses on bridging the gap between artistic practice and functional design, relying on a narrative structure rooted in human empathy,” according to their website. Perhaps that’s a noble way of saying “pieces of speech you can still operate.” The anticline certainly meets these criteria.
Winner Wallpaper+ Award for Project 2025an annual award given by an international design publication, the Anticline can be viewed, as far as I can tell, in one of two ways. This can be interpreted as The wallpaper describes itbecause “the unusual stovetop coffee maker takes its name from the ‘anticline’ of a geological formation where pressure from tectonic movement or rising magma folds the rocks, leaving behind folded layers, and we love that this phenomenon is imitated in the rise and fall of water, which in the alchemical process becomes coffee, something we usually take for granted.
Or you think it looks like a leftover Moka Pot from being used as an improvised weapon by Tony Soprano or any of the characters Joe Pesci would have played (mostly without it). These are the only two readings of the Anticline.
What is not open to interpretation is the price. It solidifies like chilled magma in a rock-hard $650 American drink. A little more pricey than sixty bucks for a 9-cup Moka Pot at your nearest Williams Sonoma store. But Anticline is art, functional art – although it’s solid to imagine how you can operate the handle without burning the damn shit off the backs of your fingers – constrained edition, handmade functional art at that; just over 200 of them will be created.
I admit that as a lover and somewhat of a collector of weird and wonderful coffee gadgets, I really want to do this. But it’s more like “I want someone to magically appear on my counter” than like “I want to pay in US dollars.” This is the microwave version of the EK43 or Moonraker (or almost anything else Weber Workshops makes). These are things I desperately need, but who am I, Scrooge McDuck?
However, if you have a swimming pool full of gold coins or have other financial priorities, you can purchase your own Anticline coffee machine at Cultivation Objects official website.
